Benjamin Malo

Anthropology – Université Laval

I am a PhD candidate in medical anthropology at Université Laval. My main research interests are vaccine hesitancy, alternative and complementary medicine and misinformation. My thesis looks at the influence of online (mis)information on parents’ vaccine hesitancy. More specifically, I am interested in how parental confidence is modulated by online risk representations. I also examine how these dynamics are part of a wider context of loss of trust in expertise and democratic institutions, as well as in the ‘post-truth era’.